Looks like Jen has a thing for Brits! JLaw and Gwynnie's ex-husband are hooking up after she split up with X-Men co-star Nicholas Hoult

Jennifer Lawrence is dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, according to new reports.

The alleged new couple have known each other for a while, but things started to get romantic in the last few weeks after splitting with British actor Nicholas Hoult, according to E! News.

New York's Page Six reveals that the pair spent time together in New York while Jen was in town last week.

“Jennifer was in New York last week, staying at the Mandarin Oriental, and that’s when things really heated up with Chris. They spent a lot of time together," a source said.

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Chris Martin on a night out at Chiltern Firehouse in London, UK

The insider also said that Jen recently broke up with actor boyfriend and X-Men co-star Nicholas Hoult, whom she had been dating on and off since meeting in 2011.

“Chris could be the reason why," they said.

Sources claim that Jen's split with Nicholas was actually "very amicable" and that it was their busy schedules that caused the break-up.

The insider told E! News: "They spent a lot of time apart because of work and it was difficult on their relationship."

Just last month, Heatworld reported that 37-year-old Fix You hitmaker Chris was spotted chatting with Jen at the after party for Coldplay's Royal Albert Hall gig at Kensington Roof Garden.

"They were talking the whole time and being really flirty. There was a whole party of people wanting Chris' attention, but his eyes were only on her. He seemed really into her - how could you not fancy Jennifer Lawrence?" an insider told Heatworld.com

The Hunger Games actress, 23, and Nicholas, 24, first split in January 2013 after two years together, but reunited last summer after filming the new X-Men movie together.

Oscar-winning beauty Jen recently admitted she wasn't ready to settle down with the British actor, but she insisted she trusted him completely.

Asked about rumours they were engaged, she told Marie Claire magazine: "We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together.

"At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other."

She added: "When we're busy, we agree to mutually ignore each other. Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them."